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  2. Mirror armour - Wikipedia

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    Although, it continued to be used as a Status symbol after it was discontinued from popular use. This armor would go on to be used by Salian priests as a form of ritual dress. Late mirror armour took the form of a mirror cuirass, helmet, greaves, and bracers worn with mail. There were two alternative constructions of mirror cuirass:

  3. Cortex System - Wikipedia

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    The Cortex System is a collection of related roleplaying games. Its most recent iteration, Cortex Prime, was designed by Cam Banks and initially published by Fandom Tabletop, then acquired by Dire Wolf Digital. Prior versions appeared in the licensed roleplaying games published by Margaret Weis Productions, where it was used as the house system ...

  4. Cortex Plus - Wikipedia

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    The Cortex Plus System is a toolkit RPG system that evolved from Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd's Cortex System.It has been used for four published games and one published preview to date, and the design principles are in the Cortex Plus Hacker's Guide, [1] a book of advice in how to create new games using Cortex Plus, and list of new games produced via Kickstarter. [2]

  5. Crocodilian armor - Wikipedia

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    The epidermal scutes of the alligator consists of oblong horny scales, arranged in transverse rows; the long axes of the scales are parallel to that of the body.On the tail, except along the mid-dorsal line, and on the ventral side of the trunk and head these scales are very regular in outline and arrangement; on the sides of the head and trunk and on the legs they are much smaller and less ...

  6. Primary motor cortex - Wikipedia

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    Primary motor cortex is defined anatomically as the region of cortex that contains large neurons known as Betz cells, which, along with other cortical neurons, send long axons down the spinal cord to synapse onto the interneuron circuitry of the spinal cord and also directly onto the alpha motor neurons in the spinal cord which connect to the ...

  7. Bomb suit - Wikipedia

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    A bomb suit, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) suit or a blast suit is a heavy suit of body armor designed to withstand the pressure generated by a bomb and any fragments the bomb may produce. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is usually worn by trained personnel attempting bomb disposal .

  8. Cerebral cortex - Wikipedia

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    The cerebral cortex, also known as the cerebral mantle, [1] is the outer layer of neural tissue of the cerebrum of the brain in humans and other mammals.It is the largest site of neural integration in the central nervous system, [2] and plays a key role in attention, perception, awareness, thought, memory, language, and consciousness.

  9. Development of the cerebral cortex - Wikipedia

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    The cortex is the outer layer of the brain and is composed of up to six layers. Neurons formed in the ventricular zone migrate to their final locations in one of the six layers of the cortex. [ 1 ] The process occurs from embryonic day 10 to 17 in mice and between gestational weeks seven to 18 in humans.